Beryl > Beryl's Quotes

“Lua and Marie are holding hands.
They look like they’re so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house.
Lua kisses her.
Just softly on the lips.
And she kisses back.
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“You were looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― Lord Byron

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
― Lord Byron

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”
― Lord Byron

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
― Lord Byron

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
― George Gordon Byron